Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
More O. Henry Quotes
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Women’s weapon, water-drops.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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It’s said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It’s the wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another’s.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Those whom we first love we seldom marry.
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Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
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I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
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